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Radio equipment made for Brighton Borough Police, 1933-1939

Radio Communication

1933-1939

Alba TRG097AC Combined Radiogram Television Receiver

Television

1951

PPC (Presenta Pocket Ciné) Silent 9.5mm projector/viewer. Pocket sized viewer and projector for 9.5mm film in closed cassettes. Retailed in United Kingdom by Presenta Ltd, manufactured in Switzerland, 1926. British Patent Nos 259935 and 267812; other patents pending. Cable missing plug attachment.

Presenta Pocket Ciné Silent 9.5mm projector/viewer

Cinematography

1935

Self erecting folding camera for 828 rollfilm 50 x 30mm. Fitted with a meniscus lens f/10 T/I shutter. Direct vision optical finder. Moulded in brown bakelite. Coronet Camera Co.

Coronet Vogue camera

Photographic Technology

1937

Multiple tuner, wireless, serial number 15028

Radio Communication

Glass bottle of morphine sulphate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1960-1985

Light Switch

Electricity Supply

1920-1940

Electric Iron

Domestic Appliances

1927

Electrical adapter travel kit, around 1930

Electricity Supply

1920-1930

Coffee percolator made by A.D. Davidson Electric Co.

Domestic Appliances

General Radiological faston neutron monitor

Nuclear Energy

Radio receiver made for Brighton Borough Police, Wireless Telephone Company Limited, 1933-1939. Bakelite-case single-valve receiver marked 'no. 18'

radio receiver made for Brighton Borough Police, 1933-1939

Radio Communication

1933-1939

Mass produced Volksempfanger radio, type VE 301 W, made in Germany between 1933 and 1945 by Sachsenwerk Niedersedlitz.

Volksempfanger radio

Telecommunications

1933-1945

Solartron oscilloscope model CD568

Nuclear Physics

1955-1961

Six-20 Brownie Folding Camera

Photographic Technology

1952

GEC 1091 television receiver

Television

c. 1949

Instrument sterilizer, with spirit burner, maker unknown, 19

Chiropody

1930-1950

Moulded tenite bodied self erecting collapsing camera for 828 rollfilm 28 x 40 mm. Kodak anastigmat lens F50mm f/5.6-15 built in shutter 25/50/100/T/B. Front cell focusing infinity to 4 feet. Optical direct vision finder. Eastman Kodak Co, 1938-1941.

Kodak Bantam F5.6 camera

Photographic Technology

1938-1941

Black Type 1/232F telephone

Telecommunications

1934

Folding camera, in maroon bakelite, for 120 rollfilm, 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Simple lens, rotating plate with four apertures 1-4; T/I flipflop shutter. Brilliant refelcting rotating finder. Sliding focusing with click stops 'near' and 'far'. Maroon bellows.

The Soho Cadet camera

Photographic Technology

Small section of armour plated steel, mounted in b

Materials Science Gallery

VP twin camera, with crest 'L' on sailing ship. Plastic bodied camera for 127 rollfilm 1 1/4 x 1 5/8 inches. Fitted with a simple lens of fixed aperture and focus. BOL Co optical ground meniscus lens F:12.5. Flip flop shutter. Folding single frame viewfinder. Made in brown Bakelite.

V P twin camera

Photographic Technology

Radio, British Rail, GEC, curved front, ex Penistone Control Panel.

Radio, ex Penistone Control Panel - British Rail

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Nickel plated sterilizer, with collapsible tubular

Surgery

1890-1920

Radiation ratemeter type N600B

Nuclear Energy

1955-1965

Tuning indicator with lamp, mounted on wooden board, made by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited, Chelmsford, Essex, England, 1900-1950

tuning indicator with lamp, 1900-1950

Radio Communication

1900-1950

Trial spectacle lens frame

Optics

1880-1950

Plastic bodied box camera for 127 rollfilm 4 x 6.5cm. Fitted with a Rodenstock lens, f/11 sliding plate with three apertures. B/I rotary shutter. Two reflecting finders. Made in Germany.

Merit box camera

Photographic Technology

1930-1940

Sugar sifter, glass with metal and bakelite top, London Midland & Scottish Railway - Hotels, 'Made in England' by an unknown maker; moulded glass, "LMS HOTELS 3" block logo etched on glass. Overall: 151 mm x 68 mm.

Glass sugar sifter, London Midland & Scottish Railway - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1923-1948

Sponge forceps, bakelite and steel, second half 19

Surgery

1851-1900

Handle part of laryngoscopic set, used by Mott, c 1880

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Cystoscope, plated metal, in wooden case, European

Clinical Diagnosis

1890-1930

Laryngoscope, reflector on bracket only, European,

Clinical Diagnosis

1860-1920

Light Switch

Electricity Supply

1925

broadcast receiver radio, Britain, 1950-55

Radio Communication

1950-1955

Timing unit type 1003.F., Serial No. P23, by C & N

Nuclear Physics

1955-1975

Handle part of laryngoscopic set, used by Mott, c 1880

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Stanhope Telephone Component

Telecommunications

Distance meter

Navigation

1942-1961

Nasal dropper, glass bottle, rubber dropper

Pharmacy-ware

1930-1960

Laryngoscope, Mackenzie's, with spectacle frame, m

Clinical Diagnosis

1860-1910

Mouth prop, bakelite and rubber 1880 to 1920

Surgery

1880-1920

Large main jigger (oscillation transformer) in wood case (No. 72260), made by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited, Chelmsford, Essex, England, 1900-1950

Main jigger (oscillation transformer), 1900-1950

Radio Communication

1900-1950

No. 4 slave clock for telephone exchange master clock

Telecommunications

Radio, British Rail, Pye, ex Penistone Control Panel.

Radio, ex Penistone Control Panel - British Rail

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Bridge telephone, made by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited, Chelmsford, Essex, England, 1900-1950

Bridge telephone, 1900-1950

Radio Communication

1900-1950

Electric light switch, 1896

Electricity Supply

1896

Thermocouple Potentiometer (Electrical Resistance Meter), 1928

Heat

1928

Metropolitan-Vickers Cosmos thermionic triode valve

Radio Communication

1923

Ragar No. 6 Folding Camera

Photographic Technology

1925-1935